Standoff at Centenary Park: Nyakana blocks flyover works
UNRA officials including the surveyors and evaluation team came to the park on Friday morning to start the demarcation process.
KAMPALA - The proprietor of Nalongo Estates Ltd, Sarah Kizito Nyakana, has attempted to block Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) from demarcating 4.7acres of Centenary Park land needed for the phase two of the Kampala flyover.
UNRA officials including the surveyors and evaluation team came to the park on Friday morning to start the demarcation process.
Nyakana constantly interfered with the process claiming consultations were not yet concluded. She further stated that the land they agreed upon was two acres.
Shortly after 11 am, Nyakana protested when a truck carrying UNRA mark stones approached. She cried for help in vain.
When UNRA workers started offloading the stones from one point to the other, she brought her car and blocked the process.
The KCCA spokesperson, Daniel Muhumuza NuweAbine tried calming her down but she insisted that she doesn't want any mark stones erected. She said the land is hers and UNRA those not have any letter giving them the land.
As we speak, there is a stalemate. UNRA has resorted to transporting the mark stones manually.
Background
On Thursday, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) handed the Centenary Park over to Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) ending several years of stalemate after Nyakana failed to vacate it to pave way for the construction of the Flyover phase two project.
The handing over of the park was witnessed by KCCA executive director Dorothy Kisaka and UNRA head of enforcement John Bosco Ssejemba. It followed a directive from President Yoweri Museveni following a meeting held on Monday, October 19, 2020, at State House Entebbe.